Gear Up for Giving is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness...

The goal is to collect pennies and ponytails for Locks of Love. 2009 PENNY DRIVE April 13-May 13 at participating restaurants and PONYTAIL DRIVE May 12 & 13 at participating salons. Please visit the website for locations! Also a cause on Facebook.

As the planet starts heating up, maybe it's time to finally go cold turkey. Take the personal challenge by locking up your debit card, your credit cards, your money clip, and see what it feels like to opt out of consumer culture, even if only for 24 hrs.

Today, the Charter for Compassion website is scheduled to go active. The goal is to spread the "Golden Rule" which exists in some form in all religions. All religions and secular beliefs are welcome to help write it and video can also be uploaded.

Entered in Google's Project 10 to the 100th, structured workplace programs replicate a "village" model of working and caring for children, and even many who were highly resistant to these programs prior to implementation ended up supporting the programs.

A Charter for Compassion, crafted by a group of leading inspirational thinkers from the three Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and based on the fundamental principles of universal justice and respect.

The new law imposes strict standards on commercial kennels, including at least twice-a-year veterinary exams, larger cages and exercise requirements.

The Dane-A-Thon is held twice a year and is the organization's major fundraiser, attracting Dane owners and a variety of pet lovers who come out to see the spectacle of Great Danes off-leash.

Please spread the word about extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. It may become the next pandemic!

Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.